Once you get past the odd, equal billing on the book jacket — I’m told the publisher rejected 
Isaacson’s first proposed title, “Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs” 🙂 — the book ranks, at least in my opinion, amongst the best half-dozen business books — make that non-fiction books, period — of the last decade.
The ultimate praise (from me, at least): I’m going to read it again (I just finished).
My favorite quote, from dozens of memorable ones:
Was Steve Jobs smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He was, indeed, an example of what might be a called a magician genius, someone whose insights come out of the blue and require intuition more than mere mental processing power. Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead.
–Walter Isaacson, “Steve Jobs”
Too big to fit on a tombstone, too brief for a eulogy — but it captures Jobs’ essence perfectly.
